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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by contagious diffusion [Man coughs in group]

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it's what happens when diffusion doesn't wash their hands after sneezing okay

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well here's our question suppose that the trend of wearing giant orange

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striped overalls is an example of expansion diffusion in order for this to

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be considered an example of contagious diffusion the practice of wearing these

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overalls would have to spread how and here are potential answers hmm....

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Well to figure this out we definitely need to

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understand what contagious diffusion is so break out the emergen-C and tissues [Vitamin C package shatters]

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and let's review well contagious diffusion acts much like

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a contagious disease not so much because it causes spikes in Kleenex sales, but

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because it spreads a characteristic rapidly through an entire population for [People sneezing in sequence]

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our purposes that means contagious diffusion has two important qualities

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one it spreads rapidly and 2 it affects all members of a population no matter

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what social class they come from whether you're rich or poor anyone can catch a [Rich and poor man with illness]

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cold or an obsession with giant orange striped overalls, looking at our options

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the only one that mentions both of these qualities is C so that's our answer - easy

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peasy...what you thought we were going to drag it out poor diffusion is sick [Diffusion in bed and woman in a plastic bubble]

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the sooner it gets the bed the better we'll be in our plastic bubble

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